Since 2011, Miuccia Prada, the patron saint of smart, messy women everywhere, has been using her Miu Miu line as a platform to commission short films by female filmmakers from around the world, including Janicza Bravo, Mati Diop and Haifaa al-Mansour. For Mrs. Prada, the films, which sometimes air during her fashion shows, serve as…
It’s probably too much to show up at one of these Costume Institute shows looking for the object that ties the whole thing together. Just because they’re about clothes doesn’t mean they have to do what a smart outfit does. And yet damn if I didn’t find a single object in this year’s installment that…
Apr 23, 2025; Miami, Florida, USA; Miami Marlins pitcher Sandy Alcantara (22) pitches in the first inning against the Cincinnati Reds at loanDepot Park. Mandatory Credit: Jim Rassol-Imagn Images Simply stated, the Los Angeles Dodgers are a problem for opposing pitching staffs. The Dodgers, who will open a three-game road series against the Miami Marlins…
Headlines trumpet an alarming trend: American teenagers are in the midst of a crisis. Their rates of anxiety and depression have been rising for years. And many of the factors contributing to this unhappiness — the psychological toll of the Covid-19 pandemic, school-shooting drills, climate change, social media — are ongoing. Amid all this gloom,…
When Niklas Bildstein Zaar learned that his architecture studio, Sub, had been hired to design the main show at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale, he knew it was a strange choice. In the past decade, his Berlin-based firm has made a name for itself designing elaborate stage sets, for rappers like Travis Scott and Ye,…
Last year, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, and Tom Alison, one of his top lieutenants, were discussing how they wanted to reshape Facebook for the future of social networking. Mr. Zuckerberg, who had grown Facebook from a dorm room project to a $1.5 trillion company that he renamed Meta, wanted to bring back some of…
The fast-casual Chinese spot in Flatiron has a new outpost in the Hudson Eats food court at Brookfield Place. It is owned by Connie Chung and Vincent Chao, formerly with Eleven Madison Park and Make it Nice, and Milan Sekulic, an Australian who has worked in China. Dishes like Yunnan brisket, Mandarin duck, assorted wontons…
To bring to life the nefarious corporation at the center of the dystopian thriller “Severance,” the director of photography Jessica Lee Gagné needed to find the right location for a fictional headquarters. As she scoured the internet for abandoned malls, she stumbled upon a blog with photos of a decaying, hollowed-out midcentury office building called…
